[password]minerva
[position]00°04.40'N 174°59.04'E
[status] Beautiful but slow sailing under sunny skies and light wind this morning after boisterous sailing yesterday with wind 17-20k, gusting 23k, on the nose. Tacked away on wind shift 2 miles north of the equator crossing a short time ago to avoid atolls and predicted lighter winds to the south. Fighting adverse current of 1.5-2k.
[speed] 3.4
[heading] 080T
[weather] Wind variable SE-S 7-8k. Seas E 1.8m. 5% cloud cover. Bar 1010.
10/16/2017 10:58 PM UTC
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.